May 16, 2016

Pittsburgh is a great place to have kids…

But, so is Happy Valley

Along the way…

Brain imaging is totally tubular

Just make sure to go before they put you in the magnet

  • Sorry, Jon Cohen. :(

From a teaching assistantship to…

CMU ≠

The world doesn't seem to know that.

But, Google does…

Put the emPHAsis on the right sylLABle

CarNEgie Mellon

The world doesn't know that, either.

People like the Carnegie tartan

Ken Koedinger can really hit a softball

Ken Koedinger can really throw a football

Ken Koedinger can…

  • And you probably can't
  • So don't try
  • You'll just embarrass yourself

Think or thwim is not a bad approach to mentoring students

ACT-R does not mean

A Cognitive Theory

MacMail 0.9 was good

  • So was Word 5.1a
  • Never upgrade

GUI vs. command line ~

  • Mac vs. Windows vs. *nix
  • Blue state vs. Red state
  • Nativism vs. empiricism
  • Python vs. R
  • JavaScript vs. a real language

"Just plot the data"

  • Thanks, Mike Meyer!
  • Props to the S+/Emacs implementation

This World Wide Web is really a thing

The essence of 'gradient descent'

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Brainy? Bunch

The Baker Bunch

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing models,
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
They were ACT*Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold.
And the Psych-o's knew that it was much more than free lunch.
That these geeks were really close as family.
That's the way we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

The Baker Bunch, The Baker Bunch.
That's the way we became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch